-Lower part of a seated statuette of Djehuty in block statue pose, with cartouches of Thutmose III and his co-regent queen Hatshepsut (Thebes, Deir el-Bahari?; Petrie Museum, University College UC14351; New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty).
-Caption:
'Statuette of Tahuti
an official of Hatshepsu.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Antiquities from Egypt. 1887'.

-Wood and alabaster fragments from KV22, according to Petrie.
-Caption:
'Fragments of furniture & alabaster vessels
Tomb of Amenhotep III.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Antiquities from Egypt. 1887'.

-Headless torso from a statue of Horwedja, with back inscribed (Memphis; Petrie Museum, University College UC14634; Late period, 26th Dynasty).
-Caption:
'Statuette of Horuta. Chief quarry master
to Necho.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Antiquities from Egypt. 1887'.

Title page:

'XI
Philae.
Karnak plants.'.

-Temple of Philae (photograph taken from the island of Biga).
-Caption:
'Philae from Bigeh.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

-Temple of Philae, approach to the first pylon: statues of lions.
-Caption:
'Entrance, Philae; with Byzantine(?) lions of granite.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

[Missing - This photograph is no longer present.]

-Caption:
'Chamber of plants of Somali & Syria.
by Thothmes III. Karnak W. end of S. side'.
(Karnak, Akhemenu, "Botanical garden").

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

-Thebes, Dra Abu El-Naga: brick pyramid of King Intef (VII) Nubkeperre.
-Caption:
'Antef brick pyramid. Thebes.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

[Missing - This photograph is no longer present.]

-Caption:
'S end of W. side.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

-Thebes, Deir el-Bahari, temple of Hatshepsut: an inscribed doorway.
-Caption:
'"Banner" shewing the representation of a doorway
& not a fringe. Deir el Bahari.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

[Missing - This photograph is no longer present.]

-Caption:
'W. end of N. side.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

[Missing - This photograph is no longer present.]

-Caption:
'N. end of E. side'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

[Missing - This photograph is no longer present.]

-Caption:
'S end. of E side.'.

This photograph is in a section titled 'XI Philae. Karnak plants.'.

Ferdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.

• First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother and brother Erny. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
• Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.

Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.

Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.

Tutankhamun object cards with accompanying photographs, notes (some group notes listed below) and letters, compiled by Howard Carter and other members of the excavation team [TAA i.1.1-620]

• Most cards are manuscript records, as well as many original typescript records

• Many cards are illustrated with drawings of objects, or details of objects, by Howard Carter and A. C. Mace

  The object cards record:

  • Object number, main description of the object, location in the tomb, measurements, description of the object - Howard Carter and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Hieroglyphic inscriptions, transcriptions and translations - Mostly Alan H. Gardiner and P. E. Newberry, but some inscriptions are transcribed by Carter
  • Conservation records - Alfred Lucas and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Botanical and textile notes - P. E. Newberry
  • Photographic documentation - Harry Burton

  Other groups of notes filed with the object cards include:

  • Notes on the [ancient] robberies, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Lord Carnarvon
  • Notes on various aspects of the Annexe by Howard Carter (1-4, 10-43, 47-64), Alfred Lucas (5-9, 44-6) and A. H. Gardiner (41)
  • Notes and memoranda on various aspects of the tomb by Alfred Lucas
  • Notes on the contents of baskets by Howard Carter
  • Note on a wooden docket by A. H. Gardiner
  • Two letters from Howard Carter to A. H. Gardiner

Tutankhamun excavation journal 1922-1925, and miscellaneous notes

• 148 numbered pages
• Manuscript entries, with some drawings and pages with affixed newspaper cuttings

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1925, covering the first-third seasons

• Most entries are by Carter
• Entries between December 5th and 27th, 1922 (pages 43 to 47) are by Arthur Mace

Also, Carter's miscellaneous notes on Tutankhamun and other subjects:

• Notes on Synopsis
• The Legend of Osiris
• Nomenclature of certain Districts of the Theban Necropolis
• Records of Royal Tomb Robberies
• The First Theban Kingdom
• Protocol of Tut-Ankh-Amen

Newspaper cuttings

• The Times
  • 31 May 1923
  • 23 July 1923
  • 24 July 1923
  • 5 January 1924
  • 7 January 1924
  • 12 February 1924
  • 14 February 1924

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1922

• Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1922
• Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations
• Contains the first records on the tomb of Tutankhamun and its discovery
• Significant dates include:
  • 4th November 1922: "First steps of tomb found"
  • 5th November 1922: "Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramses VI Investigated same & found seals intact."
  • 26th November 1922: "Open second doorway about 2 4 5 pm. Advised Engelbach."

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
• ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
• iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
• v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
• Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
• Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Howard Carter's "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.

• 18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925
• All by Howard Carter

Harry Burton's large glass plate negatives.

• Taken by Harry Burton during the excavation, clearance and recording of Tutankhamun's tomb
• Approximately 860 negatives
• Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
• The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (small, see TAA i.6)

Harry Burton's small glass plate negatives

Howard Carter's negatives

Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs

• Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
• Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
• Glass and film negatives.
• Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
• Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
• The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
• A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
• Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
• Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.

Ten albums containing original photographic prints made by Harry Burton [TAA i.6.1-10].

• Arranged by chamber and by object type
• Annotated headings and negative numbers, probably by Harry Burton or his wife Minnie B.
• Howard Carter's set of albums

Originally belonging to Howard Carter.

Howard Carter's lantern slides featuring Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• A twelve-drawered wood chest containing over 600 glass lantern slides
• Belonging to Howard Carter.
• The lantern slides were made from Harry Burton's images.
• Used by Carter in his lectures.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Members of the Egyptian team manoeuvring a large carrying tray out through the entrance to the modern enclosure wall constructed shortly after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. The team are carrying two black shrine-like boxes (Carter 37) and (Carter 38) and a gabled-roofed box (Carter 32), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• An Egyptian team member, accompanied by Arthur Callendar [right, foreground] and an armed guard [centre, background], carries a tray containing a reed and papyrus box (Carter 42) and an ornamental box made of redwood inlaid with ebony and ivory. The objects are being transported from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Two Egyptian team members, accompanied by Howard Carter [wearing hat and waistcoat, left foreground], carry trays containing objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb while being pursued by tourists. The man on the left carries a decorated box (Carter 44), probably a footstool or stool, while the tray conveyed by the man contains two items, perhaps a box lid and a vessel (not identified). The objects are being transported to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Two Egyptian team members carrying a white chest (Carter 50) up the rock-cup steps leading out of Tutankhamun's tomb, with Howard Carter assisting (head visible behind the left shoulder of the man at the front). This chest contained many items of Tutankhamun's wardrobe.